Is own label about to collapse?

With more and more own label apparel retailers eyeing growth in Asia and Latin America to make up for shortfalls in their domestic markets, will a business formula that's running out of steam at home will now work abroad. Especially if it's fuelled by designers who have little connection to those foreign customers.

THE FLANARANT: Is own label about to collapse?

16 November 2011

With more and more own label apparel retailers eyeing growth in Asia and Latin America to make up for shortfalls in their domestic markets, Mike Flanagan asks whether a business formula that's running out of steam at home will now work abroad. Especially if it's fuelled by designers who have little connection to those foreign customers.

SOUTH AFRICA: Inditex opens first Zara store

11 November 2011

Inditex has opened its first Zara store in South Africa in the Sandton City shopping mall.

US slowdown prompts Gap's strategic shift overseas

14 October 2011

Gap’s update on its global strategy says much about the shift in the balance of power for multinational fashion retail groups – acknowledging difficult times in North America, but also the key role that international markets will play in future growth.

US: Uniqlo opens largest flagship ahead of global push

14 October 2011

Japanese casual clothing retailer Uniqlo has chosen Manhattan as the location for its largest ever store, as the company ramps up its global expansion in a bid to reach global sales of JPY5 trillion ($59.5bn) by 2020.

US: Gap and Banana Republic to open in Latin America

12 October 2011

Continuing its international growth strategy, Gap Inc today (12 October) said it is expanding in Latin America, with its first stores in South America due to open in Chile this month and Gap and Banana Republic stores planned for Panama and Colombia in 2012.

FOCUS: Zara grows in Brazil while Gap and H&M dither

7 October 2011

Over the past five years, retail sales of apparel generated stronger incremental growth in Brazil than anywhere else in the world except China. Yet while Inditex is reaping the rewards of double-digit growth, H&M and Gap Inc have yet to grab a piece of the action. Has the best of the opportunity slipped away? asks Magdalena Kondej, head of apparel research at Euromonitor International.